Your quilt is beautiful and well worth the waiting and time to finish it. The important thing is that you did finish it and I hope you documented the quilt's history into the label. I believe that sometimes fabric, as well as quilts, need to age like fine wine before becoming a quilt. It took nearly 10 years to finish the quilt I made for our 25th wedding anniversary for my DH who picked out the fabric and the pattern (never again will I do a block with so many bias edges, as I cursed that quilt many, many times, especially when it came to the pieced border I had planned, but after ripping it out for 2 days, set it aside and then put a plain black border on the quilt with a wide cable on the border.) All things in good time.